VKontake (a.k.a VK), the Russian Facebook rival, launched its own cryptocurrency. There are numerous flashes and reports about the Russian organization considering to develop its own cryptocurrency. It is still unclear if it is for real, or the social media giant played a prank this April Fools eve On April 1, 2019, the VKontake came with an announcement of launching a new “Cryptocurrency Mining App”, tapping for the “VK Coin” token on its own platform. To the contrary, the miners who wanted to mine this cryptocurrency were facing some issues in getting the app to do anything other than genera ..read more

It has been a wider known truther that the largest bank in America seeks to rush towards a blockchain revolution. Recently, JPMorgan has been posting numerous blockchain-jobs as compared to any other Wall Street financial firm. With keywords like “cryptocurrency”, “bitcoin”, or “blockchain”, Indeed.com has JPMorgan as the only company out of top 10s posting jobs with such keywords. Recently, in February 2019, JPM Coin was launched by JPMorgan Chase & Co., as a plan to simplify payments between clients using blockchain. They also created a version of the ethereum blockchain – Quorum, which ..read more

The Emaar group, the real estate firm behind the world’s tallest building has planned to develop its own cryptocurrency. The firm is one of the United Arab Emirates’ largest real estate developers. The group has planned to develop “Emaar community token” for its customers and partners by the end of 2019. The Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) has been planned to be launched by the end of 2019. According to the announcement, Lykke AG, a Switzerland-based crypto firm and the Emaar group will be partnering to build Ethereum-based token designed to comply with the ERC-20 standard. After launching the to ..read more